Photo: Daniel from Glasgow, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0Brentwood sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
Its letter overall is B− (#33 of 474 in Alberta): close to the middle of Canadian towns, from crime its police reported through 2023 to 2025. Still, in a usual year, 10.6 violent incidents and 31.9 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, 10.8 and 25.1. Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 67.2 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 60.3 for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Statistics Canada, police-reported crime, 2023–2025 means. The index weighs each crime by its seriousness; rates are incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Area behind the crime severity and crime rate figures: the Calgary service area.
What stands out about safety in Brentwood
Lighter than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Brentwood moved from 74.3 to 62.9, while the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 to 59.2. Year by year ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Brentwood’s B−
How sure: Not as firm as most grades, since the figure covers the entire city rather than Brentwood alone.
The grade weighs the Crime Severity Index and its violent half, averaged over 2023–2025, against every Canadian town and city neighbourhood of 1,000 people or more.
Its place: #33 of 474 in Alberta and #1,144 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Crime across Calgary, by type
These are Calgary’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Calgary runs highest on robbery (0.8 per 1,000 against 0.4), motor vehicle theft (3 per 1,000 against 1.7) and break and enter (3.7 per 1,000 against 2.2). Fraud sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 20 | 0.01 | 70% |
| Sexual violations against children | 274.7 | 0.2 | 39% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 445.3 | 0.3 | 96% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 138.3 | 0.09 | 40% |
| Robbery | 1,191.7 | 0.8 | 36% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 128.3 | 0.08 | 75% |
| Other violent violations | 241.3 | 0.2 | 59% |
| Breaking and entering | 5,706.7 | 3.7 | 15% |
| Possession of stolen property | 620 | 0.4 | 86% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 4,568.7 | 3 | 7% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1,197.7 | 0.8 | 6% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 24,502.7 | 15.7 | 11% |
| Mischief | 5,863 | 3.8 | 13% |
| Weapons violations | 862.7 | 0.6 | 93% |
| Administration of justice violations | 12,562 | 8.1 | 99% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 554 | 0.4 | 68% |
| Drug violations | 1,387 | 0.9 | 92% |
| Impaired driving | 106 | 0.07 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 124.3 | 0.08 | 41% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment: incidents a year are its own, the town’s share is only estimated in the tiles. Cleared: incidents solved by a charge or otherwise, as a share of those reported.
Incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 means, against the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Brentwood’s index fell 15% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 74.3 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2025, at 62.9. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Brentwood | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62.9 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 64.3 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 74.3 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Brentwood, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Brentwood
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brentwood | 7,369 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Charleswood | 5,642 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Varsity | 12,605 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Dalhousie | 8,617 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| University Heights | 4,031 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Banff Trail | 4,175 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Capitol Hill | 6,135 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
Same police, same number: 6 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- The clearance rate. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- Severity, weighed. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Not the neighbourhood’s own. Without open access to Calgary’s community statistics, the figures here are the city’s, not Brentwood’s own.
Questions about safety in Brentwood
Is Brentwood safe?
Its police recorded 10.6 violent incidents and 31.9 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Brentwood a Crime Severity Index of 67.2. For Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, the typical index is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Brentwood?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (15.7 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 9.2, and assault, at 6.7, follow.
Is crime going up in Brentwood?
The reverse: 74.3 in 2023 came down to 62.9 by 2025, 15% lower.
How much of Brentwood’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 35%: 49% for violent crime and 28% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ it is 38%.
Whose figures are these?
The city force’s, one set of figures for the city.
Source: Statistics Canada, police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025 (Statistics Canada Open Licence); TownRatings calculation.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services (tables 35-10-0186 to 0190, 0061, 0063, 0064), 2023–2025 · Statistics Canada, Incident-based crime statistics by detailed violations, police services (35-10-0178 to 0185) · Safety Grade: TownRatings calculation. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).